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Exploring Generosity as a Form of Worship: Bridging Faith and Finances

Exploring Generosity as a Form of Worship: Bridging Faith and Finances
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Season 1

Discover a fresh perspective on giving and its significance in our spiritual journey as we unpack God's view of generosity and financial faithfulness. 
Brace yourself for a divine revelation on how giving transcends the simple act of transferring wealth but can be considered as a holy form of worship. 
We explore how the act of giving, when done out of a pure heart, becomes an embodiment of worship that God indeed finds pleasing.

Embrace a deeper understanding of the intersection between faith and finances. 
Prepare to challenge your views on generosity as we spotlight the role of the heart in giving and how our financial choices can echo our faith.

We also engage in a timely discussion about debt and how our attitude towards it can shape our financial journey. 
This episode is your gateway to discovering God's plan for your finances, establishing a faith-filled perspective on giving and cultivating a heart that sees generosity as an act of worship.

Transcript
00:00.522 --> 00:01.665 Stop being afraid. 00:02.688 --> 00:03.069 Why? 00:03.540 --> 00:17.846 Because it's your father's good pleasure, it does him good, it pushes his buttons to give, to give, to give to you, to give what the whole kingdom? 00:18.780 --> 00:24.650 Oh, that's just talking about spiritual things, yes, and things, all these things. 00:26.300 --> 00:28.388 Welcome to the City Light Church podcast. 00:28.660 --> 00:34.949 Thanks for joining us today as we look into God's word and discover the hope and truth that he has for us. 00:35.700 --> 00:40.448 If you want to connect with City Light Church, feel free to visit us at citylightnyccom. 00:41.460 --> 00:43.406 That's citylightnyccom. 00:44.820 --> 00:51.908 Pastor Boyan Jansik and his team believe that the power of the Holy Spirit is already working in our hearts and minds. 00:52.640 --> 01:02.429 As you listen to today's teaching, remember that you are deeply loved by God, that you are surrounded by His grace and that he has a real hope and a future for you. 01:07.122 --> 01:08.508 Let's begin in Matthew 2.1. 01:09.760 --> 01:11.828 So I feel like the road a ruderman this morning. 01:13.980 --> 01:15.205 Do you guys know road a ruder? 01:18.460 --> 01:18.862 You're what? 01:19.785 --> 01:20.427 You're a plumber. 01:22.640 --> 01:23.784 You don't want to say that to me? 01:24.447 --> 01:26.826 I'm gonna, you know? 01:29.124 --> 01:31.651 No, I literally just prayed several days ago. 01:31.760 --> 01:36.290 Now, with this new house, I'm like Lord, you got to send me like honest contractors. 01:36.581 --> 01:39.767 I prayed that three years ago, third row, I'm a plumber. 01:45.480 --> 01:51.705 I'm not asking you to donate your services, I'm just asking not to rip me off, which immediately puts you in the top 1% of all plumbers. 01:57.000 --> 02:00.722 I had to call it because these Wacko Williamsburg plumbers were coming. 02:01.620 --> 02:02.102 I had to call. 02:02.162 --> 02:04.846 I did call road a ruder because they're the franchise. 02:04.987 --> 02:05.228 You know. 02:05.340 --> 02:06.806 You at least have some kind of guarantee. 02:07.340 --> 02:21.210 But they come in and they plum and I feel like the road a ruderman and your toilet is clogged and I have to unscrew the whole toilet, put on a rubber glove up to my shoulders and get on in there before I snake it. 02:21.540 --> 02:27.952 I know I'm skipping a step, but before I snake I want to see what's going on and pull out. 02:28.060 --> 02:35.904 And it's your two year old's rubber ducky that she flushed down the toilet and you're wondering why there's obstructions and blockages and your plumbing doesn't work. 02:39.460 --> 02:48.590 We're going in here and we're removing the stuff that is preventing you from being in the receiving zone Once again, because God's ways are from glory to glory. 02:48.700 --> 02:58.568 They're to increase, they're to grow, and if these things aren't aligned in our hearts and we're not aligned with the kingdom, we will live in frustration. 02:59.900 --> 03:06.926 And then, if I don't bring the truth to you, god will hold me accountable for allowing you to live under my care in frustration. 03:08.400 --> 03:10.767 So some giving truths. 03:10.907 --> 03:16.727 Here we talk about giving a sowing and reaping, because that's how the Bible presents it. 03:16.800 --> 03:21.027 These are terms that the apostle Paul himself used, these agricultural terms. 03:21.600 --> 03:29.508 You know, when you sow a seed, you can sow one apple seed but reap many trees with thousands and tens of thousands of apples. 03:29.980 --> 03:32.766 That's all nice and I make a living by my giving. 03:35.020 --> 03:42.386 But what's even more precious than the fact that our way to financial increases with our giving is that our giving is worship. 03:43.440 --> 03:51.448 It is worship, it is a matter of the heart, and God receives it as worship. 03:52.400 --> 03:54.105 The offering is holy. 03:54.766 --> 03:56.571 Giving is sacred. 03:56.980 --> 03:58.084 It should be beautiful. 03:58.546 --> 03:59.188 It's holy. 03:59.640 --> 04:02.289 Is it any wonder why Satan attacks it so much? 04:02.800 --> 04:21.431 Is it any wonder why he sends charlatans disguised as ministers who twist the scriptures, pervert the gospel and have an agenda of only finances and really give a bad name to something that should be holy and sacred and beautiful. 04:24.220 --> 04:28.565 So let's look at this scripture Matthew 2, 11,. 04:31.980 --> 04:49.567 When the wise men come to meet Jesus, and when they had come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary, his mother, and fell down and worshiped him. 04:51.580 --> 04:54.906 And when they had opened their treasures now let's just pause right there. 04:56.240 --> 05:05.586 So many times we act like after that period, they took a break, had lunch for an hour and then came and opened up their treasures. 05:07.500 --> 05:08.283 Do you get what I'm saying? 05:09.200 --> 05:16.785 We read it as though they came, worshiped him whatever that looked like went and did something else and came back and then opened up their treasures. 05:17.700 --> 05:18.905 This goes together. 05:19.940 --> 05:26.149 This was in the same minute, in fact, one version says and opening up their treasures, they worshiped him. 05:27.720 --> 05:29.446 How do you worship a king? 05:30.540 --> 05:32.708 You bring gifts worthy of a king. 05:34.500 --> 05:43.928 Those wise men were wise men because they knew how to worship God incarnate and they worshiped him with their treasures. 05:47.460 --> 05:51.022 And when they had opened their treasures, they presented gifts to him Gold. 05:52.026 --> 05:52.588 What is gold? 05:52.740 --> 05:53.543 A precious metal? 05:54.720 --> 05:56.727 A gift that you would give a deity. 05:57.620 --> 06:00.322 Frankincense or incense Excuse me, a gift. 06:00.382 --> 06:01.706 Gold is a gift you would give a king. 06:03.440 --> 06:06.669 Frankincense or incense is a gift you'd give a deity. 06:07.620 --> 06:18.767 And myrrh, a precious spice, is something you would put in a drink to someone who's dying, a dead man, an end of life, someone who's gonna pass. 06:19.860 --> 06:25.166 So they were recognizing him as king, as God and as someone who was born to die. 06:26.740 --> 06:38.306 But the point here is that they worshiped with their giving and, first and foremost, we have to understand that our giving, of any kind, is unto the Lord and he receives it as worship. 06:38.900 --> 06:42.867 That means whenever I give my tithe, I'm worshiping him with my tithe. 06:43.380 --> 06:46.450 If I give an offering, I'm worshiping him with my offering. 06:46.600 --> 06:57.722 Listen, when I buy gifts for people, when I take friends out to eat, I am doing it to a human, but I'm ultimately doing it unto the Lord and done with the right heart, in faith. 06:58.123 --> 07:00.090 He receives that as worship. 07:00.200 --> 07:01.324 Can you believe that, church? 07:02.480 --> 07:08.225 He receives it as worship and I want my life to be a sweet, smelling aroma of fragrance unto God. 07:09.320 --> 07:35.186 Oh man, I feel like I have to say this because it was so pleasant in the first service and I'm feeling that Sphinxster, tightening demon moving amongst my precious sheep and I bind him and, no pun intended, I lose him. 07:46.977 --> 07:51.321 This, this is for you, it's not for us. 07:51.681 --> 07:54.569 I know I was at a church when I first began in Christianity. 07:55.110 --> 07:59.209 If ever the topic of money came up, we knew the church was doing poorly financially. 07:59.692 --> 08:00.676 They never talk about it. 08:00.737 --> 08:03.369 And then we knew they were redlining, uh-oh, not meeting budget. 08:03.389 --> 08:04.453 And now they're talking about money. 08:04.835 --> 08:08.849 We're doing fine and, by the way, you know who's really doing fine God. 08:09.732 --> 08:13.121 God doesn't need a gift, but he needs you to give. 08:14.304 --> 08:20.015 It's not for him, it's for you, it's your way to increase. 08:20.396 --> 08:24.007 He's not looking to take something from you, he's looking to get something to you. 08:25.228 --> 08:37.780 Hallelujah, let's go to Philippians. 08:38.821 --> 08:42.449 Let's first read it out of the NLT Philippians 418. 08:46.135 --> 08:54.088 The problem here is that there is a money God and by God I mean lower case G a demonic entity. 08:55.731 --> 08:56.632 Its name is Mammon. 08:57.734 --> 08:58.836 Jesus called it Mammon. 09:00.018 --> 09:06.275 Ancient pagans had a name for it Mammon, the money God, and that God is active today. 09:06.335 --> 09:08.670 These evil spirits didn't go anywhere in several thousand years. 09:08.710 --> 09:11.746 You know that they're still around until that day they're thrown into the lake of fire. 09:11.766 --> 09:14.793 They're here and that spirit of Mammon is real. 09:15.875 --> 09:18.367 Some people are afflicted by it to one degree or another. 09:18.688 --> 09:27.133 If you've ever sat across from someone who's really afflicted by the spirit of Mammon the greed, the avarice, the stinginess it's palpable. 09:30.898 --> 09:33.026 And for many people Mammon is their God. 09:33.927 --> 09:35.310 Mammon is the God they serve. 09:35.751 --> 09:42.853 And so when you start bringing a message like this, they start getting irritated, they start getting angry, they start getting upset. 09:46.122 --> 09:47.465 Nobody here is shaking you up. 09:48.107 --> 09:50.873 The ushers aren't going to come turn you upside down and see what comes out. 09:52.837 --> 09:54.267 Nobody knows if you give or not. 09:54.367 --> 09:55.029 Nobody knows. 09:55.229 --> 09:55.871 I don't know. 09:56.272 --> 09:58.726 I treat everybody like they're the number one giver in the church. 09:59.890 --> 10:04.285 So just chill and let the Word of God come and do something or stop complaining. 10:13.899 --> 10:15.021 It's amazing how you know. 10:15.041 --> 10:16.583 In the first service it's just different. 10:16.784 --> 10:21.475 In the first service, I guess different crowd hungry ones or whatever, not saying. 10:21.495 --> 10:22.557 If you're in the second, you're not hungry. 10:22.645 --> 10:25.091 But August to come that early? 10:25.131 --> 10:27.557 You know you're just as special, but it was completely different. 10:27.605 --> 10:33.546 But here I got about seven minutes in and all of a sudden it's like somebody just pulled the emergency brake. 10:37.150 --> 10:44.599 Hallelujah, hallelujah. 10:45.741 --> 10:46.922 Here's the Apostle Paul. 10:48.144 --> 10:49.185 He's writing the Philippians. 10:50.247 --> 10:53.054 At the moment I have all I need and more. 10:54.357 --> 10:59.509 I am generously supplied with the gifts you sent me with the pathoditis. 11:01.134 --> 11:05.305 He's talking about the offering and we're talking about giving as worship. 11:06.488 --> 11:12.082 They are a sweet, smelling sacrifice that is acceptable and pleasing to God. 11:12.604 --> 11:20.978 What is he describing Worship so many times when it describes Old Testament worship? 11:21.079 --> 11:26.036 It describes the aroma, the fragrance, the smell of the sacrifice. 11:26.677 --> 11:28.943 It's well pleasing in the nostrils of God. 11:29.444 --> 11:33.253 Paul is saying I'm well supplied, thank you for your offering. 11:33.534 --> 11:36.448 But it's not even about what your offering will do in the natural. 11:36.709 --> 11:42.427 What it's really about is the fragrance, the worship, the aroma that comes up to God. 11:42.969 --> 11:44.452 You're giving to him. 11:44.954 --> 11:46.899 He receives it as worship. 11:47.220 --> 11:56.986 This is why we're still talking about the woman with the alabaster box today, because she worshiped Jesus and she didn't worship him cheaply. 11:57.427 --> 11:58.489 Words are cheap. 11:59.211 --> 11:59.792 It's a Jesus. 11:59.832 --> 12:00.313 She didn't come. 12:00.333 --> 12:01.275 Jesus, I love you. 12:01.596 --> 12:04.969 And sang Jaira over him oh, you're more than enough. 12:06.112 --> 12:06.813 More than enough. 12:08.156 --> 12:09.900 She cost her something. 12:11.463 --> 12:15.071 The Bible says that that precious perfume was worth a year's wages. 12:15.953 --> 12:19.850 And she broke that box of alabaster, took out the flask and poured it on him. 12:20.212 --> 12:22.702 And Jesus said what you've done unto me is a good thing. 12:23.023 --> 12:26.695 And wherever this gospel is told, you will be mentioned. 12:27.617 --> 12:38.447 And here I am fulfilling that prophetic word of Jesus 2000 years later, talking about the woman, why was she singled out and eternally memorialized in the scriptures? 12:38.847 --> 12:41.412 Because she worshiped him with a gift. 12:43.396 --> 12:43.957 And guess what? 12:44.038 --> 12:44.559 What do you think? 12:44.619 --> 12:49.534 That room smelled like that costly spikenard oil. 12:50.996 --> 12:56.490 That fragrance filled the whole room and changed the whole atmosphere in the place. 12:57.272 --> 13:07.986 When people make a decision to let go, it'll change the entire atmosphere of a church, then the entire atmosphere of a neighborhood, then the entire atmosphere of a city. 13:10.190 --> 13:11.753 That's why we have to get past this. 13:11.793 --> 13:22.768 And, by the way, we have a generous church and for the most part, we get to do and support the missions we support and do what we do and have the staff that we have because we have a generous church. 13:28.617 --> 13:30.845 But what would happen if all of us came on the same page? 13:38.776 --> 13:58.772 It's just amazing to me how somebody can understand that they're an eternal being and that they will live forever, either in heaven or in hell, and they can come to that place where they believe that Jesus dwelt among us, never sinned, went to the cross, died in our place and was raised again and have saving faith in Jesus. 13:59.834 --> 14:16.116 All from the Word of God, but then in another part of the Word of God they'll read that you cannot give God and that he requires you to give to Him but that He'll bring it back to you, and that they don't believe and they don't even see and have the maturity to see the complete disconnect. 14:16.779 --> 14:30.468 How do you have faith that he's going to save your soul on the day of judgment, that you will dwell in Him forever, but you don't have faith that he's going to provide for you financially and that whatever you give to Him is going to multiply back to you. 14:31.089 --> 14:32.613 Am I making sense here this morning? 14:37.864 --> 14:44.740 Let's read it in the Amplified but I have received everything in full and more. 14:44.880 --> 14:49.130 I am amply supplied, having received from Epaphroditus the gifts you sent me. 14:50.033 --> 14:59.876 They are the fragrant aroma of an offering, an acceptable sacrifice which God welcomes and in which he delights. 15:00.377 --> 15:04.326 That's our giving, and I want to smell good to God. 15:05.507 --> 15:10.874 You know people smell in the spirit they do. 15:12.957 --> 15:23.811 And because the area of giving and our relationship to money and I'll show you some scriptures in just a little bit is so important, it reveals what's happening on the inside. 15:26.276 --> 15:27.578 Even the world knows this. 15:27.618 --> 15:28.946 Do you know what a credit check is? 15:29.428 --> 15:32.697 It's really a character check, it's an integrity. 15:32.757 --> 15:38.030 Check how you handle money is going to come through in every area of your life. 15:38.691 --> 15:42.298 If someone doesn't smell good, I just on a person. 15:42.398 --> 15:43.547 I can't be down with them. 15:43.888 --> 15:47.877 I can love them, I can minister to them, but I have to cut off access. 15:48.017 --> 15:49.127 I can't let them in my life. 15:49.468 --> 15:50.331 You're dating someone. 15:50.351 --> 15:52.707 You want to see what kind of a husband and what kind of a wife they'll be. 15:53.129 --> 15:54.092 Check their giving. 15:54.994 --> 15:59.407 Ask them what are your views on giving, what are your views on generosity? 16:00.930 --> 16:04.057 Your neighbor who you know is struggling Did you buy him groceries? 16:04.077 --> 16:04.966 Did you help them out? 16:05.327 --> 16:06.310 Do you tie it to your church? 16:06.371 --> 16:07.594 Do you support any missions? 16:08.397 --> 16:15.898 If they're stingy, if they're tight-fisted, if they don't honor God, how do you think they're going to treat you? 16:17.683 --> 16:18.565 Oh no, you'll be different. 16:18.605 --> 16:23.852 Right the lies we tell ourselves. 16:23.873 --> 16:29.460 When we're in love, everyone gives off an aroma. 16:29.880 --> 16:31.768 I want to smell real good all the time. 16:33.613 --> 16:40.089 I want to be a generous person that's constantly giving off of a fragrance that's a delight in the nostrils of God. 16:44.273 --> 16:52.882 Let's look at Proverbs Proverbs 3, 9, and 10. 16:57.207 --> 17:02.714 So so far we've seen and I'm only using my three favorite verses. 17:03.216 --> 17:06.177 There's dozens of other verses that show that giving is worship. 17:07.851 --> 17:10.574 But we've seen that the wise men worship Jesus with their treasures. 17:11.891 --> 17:16.918 We've seen that the apostle Paul he talked about the offering and said it's a fragrant aroma received as worship. 17:17.790 --> 17:22.081 Here in Proverbs it says honor the Lord with your possessions. 17:23.371 --> 17:35.198 Notice what it doesn't say Honor the church, honor the temple, honor the organization, honor the charity, honor the 501c3, honor the preacher. 17:36.220 --> 17:36.581 Why? 17:37.010 --> 17:38.897 Because it's going to the Lord. 17:39.351 --> 17:40.776 It is worship unto him. 17:41.671 --> 17:44.860 Honor the Lord with your possessions. 17:49.550 --> 17:53.556 When Melchizedek came to Abraham, abraham gave him a tithe of all. 17:54.090 --> 17:56.158 Melchizedek was pointing to Jesus. 17:56.250 --> 17:57.516 He was a type of Jesus. 17:58.070 --> 18:11.595 The book of Hebrews tells us that and it says over there meaning over in the Old Testament, they receive them, the priests receive tithes, but over here, under the New Covenant, he himself receives them. 18:11.976 --> 18:13.520 Jesus receives them. 18:14.410 --> 18:15.614 I'm giving to him. 18:15.955 --> 18:18.636 I'm not giving to man, I'm not giving to a church. 18:18.911 --> 18:21.259 I have a giving relationship with the Lord. 18:21.571 --> 18:29.254 He's given me everything and I prove my trustworthiness when I give him whatever he wants. 18:30.770 --> 18:31.715 This is so important. 18:31.870 --> 18:33.898 It's a matter of trustworthiness. 18:34.331 --> 18:35.616 He's a God of increase. 18:36.230 --> 18:39.399 I just experienced a major breakthrough in my life. 18:40.530 --> 18:42.255 I hear and see other people. 18:42.296 --> 18:45.015 They experience a sudden shift. 18:45.317 --> 18:49.296 That's only after a season of testing and proving your trustworthiness. 18:50.090 --> 18:52.338 So many people have the powerball mentality. 18:53.716 --> 19:03.370 They just think somehow, some way, all of a sudden, bam, and they're gonna land and be like Uncle Scrooge, diving into the money pit and doing the backstroke and a bunch of gold coins. 19:04.337 --> 19:07.750 It's not gonna happen that way, and no, I mean, you all know this. 19:08.718 --> 19:17.530 Whenever that does happen, like via a lottery, you check back with them two years later and they're back in the trailer park again Because they blow themselves up. 19:18.761 --> 19:19.770 They don't know how to handle money. 19:20.814 --> 19:46.770 But we prove our trustworthiness little by little, as we do as good stewards and as to all we are stewards, as we do as good stewards with our finances, whatever he tells us to do, hallelujah, honor the Lord with your possessions and with the first fruits of all your increase. 19:47.618 --> 19:48.750 This is such a touchy subject. 19:49.111 --> 19:52.280 Speaking of first fruits, do you know the original murder in the Bible? 19:52.770 --> 19:54.517 The first murder was over an offering. 19:56.252 --> 19:57.115 Cain killed Abel. 19:58.513 --> 19:59.637 Abel brought the first fruits. 20:00.932 --> 20:02.770 Cain did it kind of when he felt like it. 20:03.192 --> 20:08.730 The Bible says in the course of time I'll get to it, I can't right now. 20:09.473 --> 20:15.166 I got reasons and God received Abel's offering. 20:15.206 --> 20:15.750 It was the first fruits. 20:16.071 --> 20:17.436 Cain was in the course of time. 20:19.111 --> 20:21.138 And then Cain was so jealous he killed his brother Abel. 20:25.053 --> 20:35.298 So I guess I shouldn't be surprised at some of the tension I'm detecting in the spirit as I preach this, since the subject of an offering was the impetus for the first murder in the Bible. 20:36.452 --> 20:41.138 Maybe that's what I'm detecting, pastor James, some people just looking at me with murder in their hearts. 20:43.114 --> 20:47.469 You tempted to log off already three times. 20:47.489 --> 20:50.122 You stay out, you, you especially. 20:50.484 --> 20:51.770 You know you, you need to stay on. 20:52.817 --> 20:57.177 I know it's like fingernails on a chalkboard for you right now, but trust me, it's good for you. 20:58.440 --> 21:05.645 It's good for you, it'll do you good in the end, hallelujah. 21:07.996 --> 21:15.770 So let's read the next verse, because you'll see that in the Bible, whenever he talks about giving, it also talks about receiving. 21:15.790 --> 21:23.185 In fact, you'll never find Jesus talking about giving without also talking about receiving Never. 21:24.389 --> 21:24.770 It's impossible. 21:26.154 --> 21:30.406 It's impossible to give to God without getting a harvest back Impossible. 21:32.177 --> 21:34.770 That woman built a penthouse apartment for Elijah. 21:34.770 --> 21:36.709 Well, you know, she built a room for him on her roof. 21:36.770 --> 21:37.654 She made a little cot for him. 21:38.831 --> 21:40.164 She sowed seed into the man of God. 21:41.093 --> 21:42.447 He's trying to go to sleep and he can't sleep. 21:47.883 --> 21:50.509 He's like something needs to be done for her. 21:50.529 --> 21:50.610 Why? 21:51.033 --> 21:59.079 Because you can't sow seed without a harvest back, without there being a retribution, the good kind, jesus, I've offered up a $10,000 reward. 21:59.120 --> 22:01.366 No one has ever done that. 22:01.790 --> 22:03.770 I've offered up a $10,000 reward. 22:03.790 --> 22:05.300 No one has taken me up on it. 22:06.770 --> 22:14.683 If you can find the scripture where Jesus talks about giving without also talking about receiving, always they go together. 22:19.856 --> 22:31.162 Honor the Lord with the first fruits of your increase, all your possessions, so your barns will be filled with plenty and your vats will overflow with new wine. 22:33.827 --> 22:37.835 Hallelujah, thank you, jesus. 22:37.915 --> 22:44.803 We're gonna have a time of ministry and you're gonna see the difference in here as the Lord removes some of these blockages. 22:46.535 --> 22:51.162 The Lord is gonna come, but right now I still have my rubber glove on up to my shoulder. 22:54.633 --> 23:04.924 Hallelujah, let's go to Luke 12, verse 31. 23:09.081 --> 23:10.262 Luke 12, verse 31. 23:14.729 --> 23:21.423 Hallelujah, jesus, he says. 23:21.515 --> 23:27.905 But seek the kingdom of God and all these things shall be added to you. 23:29.755 --> 23:34.724 Do not fear little flock, for it's your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom. 23:34.835 --> 23:35.679 Isn't that so beautiful? 23:37.155 --> 23:47.141 And, by the way, a lot of times you might say really all of the time, when we're bound up in the area of giving, what's behind that is fear. 23:48.055 --> 23:55.443 We may dress it up as all these other things, but really what's behind that is fear, fear that I won't have enough for me. 23:57.935 --> 23:59.903 And God is a God of multiplication. 24:00.195 --> 24:07.843 He's the one who takes a little bit of bread and a few fishes from a little boy's lunch and multiplies it and feeds 15,000. 24:10.415 --> 24:13.104 So Jesus's words are always addressing that fear. 24:13.775 --> 24:23.403 We as humans, we can be so petty, so short-sighted, so small-minded and always making decisions based out of fear. 24:23.475 --> 24:25.723 And Jesus is saying do not be afraid. 24:26.255 --> 24:36.139 Quit being bound by that poverty spirit, that lack mentality, where you see everything through that lens of just barely getting by and not enough. 24:36.795 --> 24:37.939 Stop being afraid. 24:38.983 --> 24:39.344 Why? 24:39.815 --> 24:53.901 Because it's your Father's good pleasure, it does him good, it pushes his buttons to give, to give, to give to you, to give what the whole kingdom? 24:55.195 --> 25:01.085 Oh, that's just talking about spiritual things, yes, and things, all these things. 25:01.595 --> 25:02.760 You read the verses before. 25:02.875 --> 25:04.039 What things is he talking about? 25:04.942 --> 25:10.203 Things, things that you need. 25:11.715 --> 25:15.361 Some people seem think it's holy to be so spiritually minded. 25:15.935 --> 25:18.781 They're no earthly good, they spiritualize everything. 25:19.236 --> 25:25.005 No, it's like God understands even better than them that you live on a physical earth, in a physical body. 25:25.435 --> 25:25.917 And guess what? 25:25.957 --> 25:26.419 You will need? 25:26.479 --> 25:32.705 Physical things and he has promised to provide for you, yes, spiritually and physically. 25:34.695 --> 25:41.281 Hallelujah, do not fear little flock, for it's your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom. 25:41.955 --> 25:46.102 Next verse Sell what you have and give alms. 25:47.855 --> 25:51.544 Notice it doesn't say sell all that you have and give alms. 25:52.835 --> 25:59.261 I have to say that because somehow Christianity became like the poor person's religion. 26:00.035 --> 26:00.818 How did that happen? 26:01.715 --> 26:14.842 No other religion do people equate with poverty, but somehow, when you say you're a Christian, or especially when you say you're a minister, they needed to think if you're not dirt poor, barefoot, wearing a potato sack, you're not really living your faith out authentically. 26:15.223 --> 26:15.464 What? 26:16.275 --> 26:24.984 How did that happen when you see, all throughout the scriptures, god's people blessed, and by blessed I mean financially prosperous. 26:25.875 --> 26:33.047 Let me say it again for those who were irritated Financially, money prosperous. 26:39.475 --> 26:41.843 How did poverty get equated with holiness? 26:44.055 --> 26:45.400 I've been to over 50 nations. 26:46.655 --> 26:47.559 I've been to some very, very. 26:48.555 --> 26:54.681 I did the work for years in Liberia, for fourth poorest nation in the world, when I would go around West Point. 26:56.795 --> 26:57.718 I never went around going. 26:57.838 --> 26:58.822 Oh, look at the needles. 27:00.056 --> 27:02.620 Oh, look at people living homeless, thousands of them on the beach. 27:03.295 --> 27:04.359 Ooh, it's so holy here. 27:05.255 --> 27:07.797 This is just the will of God, Mm. 27:08.259 --> 27:22.238 No, I reckon that there is a curse here and we need to see it lifted by the blood of Jesus, hallelujah. 27:23.475 --> 27:27.106 But people will read this and think Jesus is saying sell everything you have. 27:27.195 --> 27:28.962 No, he's just saying be generous. 27:29.395 --> 27:31.917 And if you need to sell something in order to be generous, sell that. 27:33.935 --> 27:41.341 It's the same people who take Peter and John on their way to the gate called Beautiful and they say silver and gold, we have none. 27:41.435 --> 27:43.323 But in the name of Jesus, what I have I give to you. 27:43.375 --> 27:44.861 And they go see Peter and John were broke. 27:45.395 --> 27:45.557 What? 27:46.955 --> 27:48.160 How did they do what they did? 27:50.575 --> 27:51.700 Somebody financed them. 27:52.135 --> 27:58.384 You read in John, chapter eight there were two very wealthy women who financed Jesus' entire ministry. 28:00.435 --> 28:11.902 But that day, because they didn't have Apple Pay and they didn't have AmEx and it was a bit of a pain to carry around your sack of gold everywhere you went, they left it behind because they were going to pray. 28:11.975 --> 28:14.778 And they go silver and gold, we're fresh out, it's back in the hotel. 28:15.695 --> 28:21.439 And then people build a whole doctrine and a whole world view and a whole lifestyle out of Peter and John saying silver and gold, we have none. 28:22.575 --> 28:23.559 Great, you have none. 28:24.355 --> 28:30.821 Let's see how many people you get saved, how many orphanages you start, how much suffering you relieve and how much good you do in the world. 28:30.975 --> 28:35.542 Because all that on this side of heaven is gonna take some money, honey, some bread, fred, and some dough Joe. 28:37.695 --> 28:39.703 You ever notice people who come against this message. 28:39.995 --> 28:40.959 What are they doing? 28:41.595 --> 28:43.502 What are you doing to help the hurting? 28:43.875 --> 28:45.802 What are you doing to spread the gospel? 28:46.455 --> 28:47.841 No, you, just with your arms folded. 28:47.955 --> 28:51.902 Oh, we're talking about money, maaah, but what are you doing? 28:52.575 --> 28:53.479 I know what I'm doing. 28:53.915 --> 28:55.399 I know what I've done for 21 years. 28:57.304 --> 28:57.946 What are you doing? 29:01.295 --> 29:02.660 I'm pretty happy with what I'm doing. 29:04.395 --> 29:05.238 Still want to do more. 29:06.495 --> 29:07.237 I want to help more. 29:18.735 --> 29:29.004 So he's not saying oh, and it's also the same people who read and ask how you know the early church that one time they sold everything and they held all things in common. 29:30.550 --> 29:32.135 That was awesome, that was wonderful. 29:32.476 --> 29:33.138 That happened once. 29:35.931 --> 29:37.377 That doesn't mean that's how we're supposed to live. 29:37.510 --> 29:40.299 It was a supernatural work that God did in the book of Acts. 29:40.950 --> 29:45.594 It doesn't mean that God loves communism and we're all supposed to live in a commune and we'll all just share. 29:46.556 --> 29:47.839 For some of you, that should be a relief. 29:48.662 --> 29:54.238 Amen, we love each other just like this. 29:54.299 --> 29:59.300 Imagine all holding up in the Hian Center, all selling, and then we just have one giant fridge we all help ourselves from. 30:02.211 --> 30:03.736 That was a special grace. 30:03.796 --> 30:07.288 That was on the church the first century in Jerusalem. 30:07.388 --> 30:09.912 At that time you see all of Paul's letters. 30:09.992 --> 30:12.014 They're not all living together in one community. 30:12.154 --> 30:13.115 David Koresh style. 30:28.351 --> 30:32.510 I feel bad for the social media people that have to find snippets that they can post. 30:33.392 --> 30:42.657 Just, my heart goes out to you because just as I get going I give him something that's going to make him wince. 30:44.450 --> 30:48.562 If he could just not say that, then we'd have a 30 second sound bite. 30:52.671 --> 30:54.077 Sell what you have and give alms. 30:54.177 --> 31:03.410 Provide yourselves money, bags which do not grow old, a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches nor moth destroys. 31:04.695 --> 31:06.220 For where your treasure is. 31:06.280 --> 31:07.685 Why are we talking about this? 31:07.705 --> 31:16.344 Because Jesus talked about it and he said for where your treasure is there, your heart will be also. 31:17.011 --> 31:21.730 So all of us have treasures and the direction of our treasure traffic. 31:22.633 --> 31:23.556 We'll have a direction. 31:23.596 --> 31:24.620 Our treasures flowing. 31:25.743 --> 31:31.300 Jesus said whatever direction your treasure is flowing, that reveals what has captivated your heart. 31:32.343 --> 31:37.554 So if 99% of your treasure traffic goes to you, then guess who's captivated your heart? 31:38.114 --> 31:46.865 You, me, myself, and I, me, my precious, mine, mine. 31:51.210 --> 32:10.376 But if there's a portion that goes to the Lord, then I know that he's captivated my heart, for where your treasure is, there your heart is also, and this is why this is an important subject and this is why Jesus talked about this all the time, all the time. 32:17.384 --> 32:19.947 Let's look at Luke 16, verse 10. 32:22.073 --> 32:34.102 It's a matter of the heart, you know. 32:34.122 --> 32:38.953 If you have a problem with this message, let me ask you this what would you think of me if I wasn't a tither? 32:42.022 --> 32:45.371 I mean, I just said that and you made a face, and I don't blame you, I make the same face. 32:45.732 --> 32:51.660 You made a face like I smelled bad, and I would agree with you. 32:54.104 --> 32:57.113 What about if our staff didn't tithe? 32:58.056 --> 32:59.360 We have seven people on staff. 32:59.421 --> 33:00.284 What if they didn't tithe? 33:01.006 --> 33:01.247 Would you? 33:01.267 --> 33:02.110 And you knew it. 33:02.291 --> 33:10.194 And we just said you know what we don't, we just you know, maybe sometimes, and have some theological problems with it. 33:10.274 --> 33:15.396 And you know, Paul did once say just to give generously, and we just give generously. 33:15.697 --> 33:17.003 Well, percentage wise, what is? 33:17.224 --> 33:19.412 Well, it comes out to like two and a half percent a year. 33:19.452 --> 33:25.884 Well, the people I'm just going, people have all these things, these ideas. 33:27.371 --> 33:31.074 You know there's a whole camp that's oh, we're not supposed to tithe, we're just supposed to give generously. 33:31.115 --> 33:32.723 Okay, what does your generously look like? 33:32.883 --> 33:33.426 Do the math. 33:33.466 --> 33:36.739 And they finally sit down and do the math and it comes out that we're given two to 3%. 33:37.622 --> 33:39.329 Well, guess what, honey bunny? 33:39.369 --> 33:45.382 That's not generous because under the old covenant they gave 10% and we have a much better covenant. 33:45.463 --> 33:47.374 How much more should we give? 33:49.098 --> 33:51.244 And, by the way, I don't give 10%, I give away more. 33:52.086 --> 33:53.810 10% is the starting point. 33:53.930 --> 34:00.832 And I said, god, if this is true and this works, I want you to increase me so that I can give more every successive year. 34:02.834 --> 34:11.346 Hallelujah, he who is faithful in what is least is faithful also in much. 34:12.050 --> 34:14.777 By the way, he's addressing several things here. 34:14.858 --> 34:20.945 One of the things he's addressing is you know the person that says I'll give when my ship comes in. 34:21.387 --> 34:25.823 I don't have anything now, things are tight, but when I hit it I'll be. 34:25.904 --> 34:27.550 I mean, I'll build a whole wing on the church. 34:29.193 --> 34:29.875 It's a lie. 34:30.496 --> 34:33.984 If you're not faithful in the little, you won't be faithful in the much. 34:34.850 --> 34:37.057 And people who are waiting for their ship to come in. 34:37.237 --> 34:38.681 If you haven't sent the ship out. 34:39.730 --> 34:41.814 There's not one returning with extra cargo. 34:45.901 --> 34:48.205 But Jesus here is talking about the least. 34:48.310 --> 34:52.299 What is the least and why is there a connection with the anointing and money? 34:52.760 --> 34:54.992 Because the anointing is power. 34:55.753 --> 34:59.380 It's power in the spirit realm, it's God's raw power. 34:59.721 --> 35:01.444 And what's power here on earth? 35:01.930 --> 35:02.732 It is money. 35:03.273 --> 35:11.934 Money is power in the natural, in the carnal, but the anointing is true power, true power in the spirit. 35:12.576 --> 35:22.078 And Jesus is comparing and contrasting what's least is money, what's greatest is the anointing. 35:22.799 --> 35:31.968 But if you can't be faithful in the least, in money, how will you be entrusted with true riches, the anointing, the power of God. 35:32.369 --> 35:37.201 And, by the way, this is why we're talking about this in a series that's all about the anointing of God. 35:37.651 --> 35:39.136 Remember, I'm the rotor-router guy. 35:39.798 --> 35:44.559 I left last Sunday and I felt like we hit about a level three out of 10 that we could have gone to. 35:44.599 --> 35:59.864 But there were these entrances and these blockages and I thought I was going to have to get before the Lord for hours, until he revealed to Timmy within five minutes I'm driving away, and he said you have to hit this, you have to get in there, because some people they're never going to get their breakthrough because they just don't understand. 36:02.732 --> 36:12.242 He who is faithful in what is least is faithful also in much, and he who is unjust in what is least is also unjust in much. 36:12.262 --> 36:14.370 And you're like, yeah, but Pastor, how do you know who's talking about money? 36:15.835 --> 36:17.301 You're really stretching it this time. 36:17.441 --> 36:18.324 Let's see the next verse. 36:19.047 --> 36:25.121 I'm so glad you asked, therefore, if you have not been faithful in unrighteous mammon. 36:25.682 --> 36:32.302 Remember mammon the money, god who will commit to your trust to the true riches. 36:32.322 --> 36:39.066 So there is a connection between money in the heart, money in the anointing and Jesus himself. 36:39.086 --> 36:41.957 If you have a problem with this message, take it up with Jesus. 36:43.443 --> 36:51.486 I know we don't have it in red lettering up on the screens, but if you look in your Bible it'll be in red letters, words of Christ in red. 36:51.507 --> 36:58.640 And he said I cannot trust you with true riches if you've been unfaithful with money. 37:02.107 --> 37:12.380 Do you know what the most common answer I get when I work with somebody concerning their finances, and I'll always ask this right away how much debt are you in? 37:12.540 --> 37:16.395 What the most common answer is to the question how much debt do you have, how much debt are you in? 37:16.956 --> 37:19.241 The most common answer is I don't know. 37:21.206 --> 37:21.968 Always, first they squirm. 37:21.988 --> 37:27.664 Then they look at the shame comes, the guilt comes and they say I don't know. 37:28.325 --> 37:29.088 And I've been there. 37:29.168 --> 37:29.970 I've had 17 credit cards. 37:33.780 --> 37:35.084 I still have them all cut up. 37:35.144 --> 37:36.728 I saved them as I paid each one off. 37:36.748 --> 37:37.029 I cut them up. 37:37.049 --> 37:43.142 In fact they moved and I still have the wooden box, still have them. 37:44.705 --> 37:47.210 I know that feeling and so what you do? 37:47.230 --> 37:49.663 You are like that emu bird that sticks your head in the sand. 37:49.683 --> 37:50.910 You know it sticks its head in the sand. 37:52.357 --> 37:53.160 You know why it does that? 37:53.421 --> 37:57.097 Because it believes if you can't see the predators, its enemies they can't see it. 37:57.799 --> 38:03.900 So, concerning debt, people are like you know what, maybe if I don't know how much debt I'm in the debt won't know that it has me. 38:04.723 --> 38:05.565 No, it knows. 38:05.585 --> 38:09.117 And still attached to your social security number and your name. 38:10.943 --> 38:12.569 But the most common answer I get is I don't know. 38:12.589 --> 38:18.050 When you make a decision to be a giver, it'll cause you to get serious about finances, and it is a serious thing. 38:19.074 --> 38:22.365 The number one cause for divorce is not adultery, that's number two. 38:22.866 --> 38:25.432 Number one is strife over finances. 38:27.135 --> 38:34.906 This is important and you pretending like it's not, it's not doing you any favors. 38:35.911 --> 38:38.058 How you handle money, it's important to God. 38:38.560 --> 38:39.082 And guess what? 38:39.162 --> 38:45.024 God wants to prosper you, god wants to bless you, god wants to shower you and cause your cup to overflow. 38:45.426 --> 39:06.994 But that's not going to happen if you're at a third grade level of financial understanding and it begins with making a decision to give and first realizing 10%, and you actually sit down and see what's coming in, and sit down and see what's going out and do five minutes of math and make some decisions and watch what the Lord does. 39:09.542 --> 39:11.748 For some of you, you don't even know why I'm saying this, trust me. 39:11.768 --> 39:13.213 There's people around. 39:13.254 --> 39:14.781 They're just flying blindfolded. 39:15.244 --> 39:16.772 They don't even know what's coming in or what's going. 39:16.792 --> 39:17.857 They're just kind of like winging it. 39:18.500 --> 39:20.169 And how do they justify that to themselves? 39:20.189 --> 39:23.439 They tell them their big payday is coming, because, after all, we live in America. 39:23.559 --> 39:35.369 One of the reasons we have so much debt is, of course, debt is given away cheaply, as opposed to, like Montenegro, it's no one in debt because they also don't believe that there's going to be a miracle payday. 39:35.409 --> 39:43.434 But we live in America and we're inundated with stories of somebody just hitting it big, and so we think that's going to happen to us. 39:45.300 --> 39:46.926 But if God loves you and he does. 39:47.086 --> 39:50.882 He's going to make sure that doesn't happen to you, because it's going to blow you out of the water until you're ready. 39:51.866 --> 39:54.152 This is not no standing ovation for that one. 39:54.232 --> 40:07.070 Erica, nobody's Acts 10, verses one through four, you'll be happy to know. 40:07.110 --> 40:24.912 I'm closing with this Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. 40:27.962 --> 40:29.768 I have great respect for your profession. 40:29.920 --> 40:30.945 Plumbing is hard work. 40:31.880 --> 40:32.865 I'm feeling it right now. 40:33.300 --> 40:38.243 Plumbing is hard work, first service easy work, but right now plumbing is. 40:39.567 --> 40:41.683 It's a dirty job, but somebody's gotta do it. 40:41.783 --> 40:51.726 Yeah, yes, sir, half of you are not even expecting the Holy Spirit to touch you because you think this is a financial seminar. 40:51.767 --> 40:56.148 All of a sudden, like God is on pause and he's disinterested. 40:57.960 --> 40:58.984 He loves this message. 40:59.780 --> 41:08.105 I love preaching this message Bit of a fight this morning, but I have no shortage of scriptures concerning this message. 41:10.120 --> 41:18.528 So I know that he loves this message because it's in his word and I know how he moves when people make that adjustment on the inside. 41:19.340 --> 41:25.110 I've seen it over and over again and I fully expect him to move and touch lives. 41:25.400 --> 41:26.966 Not tomorrow in this service. 41:29.000 --> 41:33.703 Hallelujah, I feel it in my bones. 41:37.752 --> 41:58.406 Acts there was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a centurion of what was called the Italian Regiment Verse two a devout man and one who feared God with all his household, who gave alms generously to the people and pray to God always. 41:58.620 --> 41:59.322 This man. 41:59.482 --> 42:04.284 In verse three you'll see, he was chosen, he was selected. 42:05.440 --> 42:10.807 This was gonna be the catalyst for the gospel coming to Gentiles. 42:11.760 --> 42:15.766 That's you, that's me, that's me, that's you. 42:16.400 --> 42:26.217 We're all Gentiles, except for Josiah Glickstein and the other Jewish people here. 42:27.960 --> 42:30.950 Praise God, one true Jew. 42:32.760 --> 42:41.068 I too am a completed Jew, but the vast, overwhelming majority of us are not. 42:41.200 --> 42:41.944 We're Gentiles. 42:42.580 --> 42:43.665 And the gospel came to us. 42:43.860 --> 42:45.025 Cornelius was the spark. 42:45.840 --> 42:52.929 What made him so special that he would receive that honor and that he would receive this angelic visitation? 42:53.400 --> 43:09.604 About the ninth hour of the day he saw clearly in a vision an angel of God coming in and saying to him Cornelius, saying Cornelius. 43:10.741 --> 43:15.103 And when he observed him he was afraid and said what is it, lord? 43:15.860 --> 43:19.651 So the angel immediately explains why Cornelius was selected. 43:21.200 --> 43:30.564 So he said to him your prayers and your alms, your giving, your generosity have come up for memorial before God. 43:30.920 --> 43:39.505 Don't tell me that money and giving are not connected with the anointing and with visitation and revelation and the power of God. 43:39.820 --> 43:44.630 Don't tell me that when you see this in the scriptures. 43:49.700 --> 43:51.367 Can I just share this testimony with you? 43:51.420 --> 43:53.307 When I was 16, I learned about tithing. 43:53.540 --> 43:54.263 I worked at the Gap. 43:54.840 --> 43:56.044 You believe that was. 43:56.064 --> 44:00.444 That was a I know right over on Austin Street Cause you could cause. 44:00.464 --> 44:02.345 You don't want to be rude, but you can kind of see it right. 44:02.520 --> 44:06.427 You could see six of you like, hello, what size can I get for you? 44:07.140 --> 44:09.024 Yeah, and that's what I was trained. 44:09.740 --> 44:10.744 You didn't ask can I help you? 44:10.804 --> 44:11.246 They trained you. 44:11.921 --> 44:12.865 No, no, no, open ended questions. 44:12.980 --> 44:13.442 What size? 44:13.482 --> 44:14.501 And it was so straight you come up to. 44:14.521 --> 44:15.446 What size can I get for you? 44:15.540 --> 44:17.821 It's like I just want to look around, but I had to. 44:17.862 --> 44:18.966 What size can I get for you? 44:20.940 --> 44:25.524 My first job was in pioneer supermarket I'm Queens of Boulevard. 44:25.740 --> 44:34.751 I was a delivery boy, and then my second job, the Gap, and you know, I was making like 120 bucks a week. 44:35.281 --> 44:43.207 You know, part time, 16 years old, I learned about tithing and I got in a habit then and I haven't stopped tithing since then. 44:43.880 --> 44:51.386 But if somebody wanted something of mine then I would turn into golem. 44:52.021 --> 44:54.601 Oh, my precious Like. 44:55.042 --> 45:00.727 Somebody would come to my dorm in college and I'd have all these Christian books and somebody would say, oh, you know what book? 45:00.900 --> 45:02.405 And the Lord would say just give him the book. 45:02.867 --> 45:10.390 No, that was like an eight dollar book, but it was my book and I don't know. 45:10.490 --> 45:18.368 You know I had it marked up the way I liked it and I didn't know when I'd be over at the Christian bookstore no Amazon back then to get another copy. 45:19.380 --> 45:22.189 Or, god forbid, if somebody liked one of my worship CDs. 45:26.549 --> 45:30.448 It's like I'll give you the money here's $15, go bought, but you're not getting. 45:31.420 --> 45:33.628 And then the Lord began to work on that. 45:35.100 --> 45:36.286 I was like, lord, you really break him. 45:36.286 --> 45:40.606 I was like, yes, I am, and I want to get you to the place whenever I point to anywhere. 45:40.760 --> 45:43.108 If someone says, nice tie, you check in with me. 45:44.040 --> 45:46.183 Someone says, nice tie Back then I wore ties. 45:48.549 --> 45:50.463 Someone says, nice tie, you go, lord, you want me to give it. 45:51.787 --> 45:55.870 Okay, nice, where you realize everything is mine. 45:57.360 --> 46:07.012 And when I made that decision and I took several weeks of wrestling with the Lord when I made that decision then the day loose opened, then the flood came. 46:08.160 --> 46:12.930 And that's really where he wants to take you to a place of understanding that you are a steward. 46:13.060 --> 46:14.064 You know what a steward is. 46:15.280 --> 46:30.131 You're in charge of the money, you're in charge of the wealth, but it's not really yours, it's the masters, and a faithful steward gets amply rewarded and an unfaithful steward does not get a reward but punishment. 46:32.360 --> 46:34.227 Hallelujah, worship team, come on up. 46:36.045 --> 46:37.389 I want you just to lift your hands. 46:39.800 --> 46:40.524 Hallelujah. 46:43.240 --> 46:58.841 Our attitude about money matters La na, na, na va sep o Lord Ramon Tug, some of you, you need to just do some business with the Lord and some of you just need to say I'm sorry, lord Jesus, I'm sorry, I was afraid, lord. 46:58.861 --> 47:02.004 I'm sorry I didn't trust you, Lord. 47:02.024 --> 47:05.061 I'm sorry I limited you, lord. 47:05.081 --> 47:14.725 I'm sorry I looked only to my paycheck, I looked to all these natural things, when I know that you can come and you'll find a hundred different ways I never even thought of to get it to me. 47:16.000 --> 47:18.825 Some of you need to say I'm sorry, lord, I didn't trust you with the 10th. 47:19.040 --> 47:20.505 I didn't trust you with first fruits. 47:21.700 --> 47:26.528 You need to say you're sorry and you need to make a 180 and repent. 47:28.893 --> 47:31.732 Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, rev Av so pararaka. 47:31.792 --> 47:34.852 Santa na na na manpa Reman dendende deboshta samanta. 47:36.282 --> 47:37.028 I get a word here. 47:39.061 --> 47:48.935 Mama na mape la ravambro basanta na na manpa la ravendono no Ravanda salasta kata. 47:51.911 --> 47:53.036 The Johnson family. 47:54.325 --> 47:55.740 I believe you watched the show. 47:56.262 --> 47:58.189 I believe you watch online every Sunday. 47:59.900 --> 48:05.349 If you're not seeing this live, I'll make sure the message comes to you. 48:06.900 --> 48:08.003 I hear several things for you. 48:11.531 --> 48:16.662 For one, we don't really. 48:17.960 --> 48:20.248 I definitely don't believe in the concept of the one. 48:23.100 --> 48:29.009 When it comes to marriage, I believe God gives us a choice and there's various people that we can marry. 48:30.740 --> 48:34.624 But for you, cam, you've been given the one. 48:36.700 --> 48:39.263 For your wife, summer has been called alongside you. 48:39.344 --> 49:00.942 Specifically, I hear the Lord saying to, as you have to trust her intuition, to trust what she sees and what she senses and what, at times, she has the difficulty of even putting words to, as you have. 49:01.805 --> 49:08.230 I realize I'm not telling you to do anything new, but to encourage you in the path that you've already been on. 49:09.760 --> 49:12.476 And what if I told you ah, what? 49:12.921 --> 49:14.916 Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah. 49:15.520 --> 49:20.427 What if I told you that the last 20 years have been practice and preparation? 49:22.020 --> 49:23.486 I know you see that in your spirit. 49:24.480 --> 49:28.986 What if I told you that the Lord has been weighing and that he hasn't found anything wanting? 49:30.080 --> 49:33.323 What if I told you that he's been checking your faithfulness in three areas? 49:33.464 --> 49:35.846 Checking your faithfulness and would you keep him first? 49:38.680 --> 49:39.845 And checking your area in two. 49:40.640 --> 49:42.567 Would you keep family second? 49:45.787 --> 49:46.810 And checking number three? 49:47.980 --> 49:51.325 Would you make expanding the kingdom of God a priority in your life? 49:53.500 --> 50:07.648 What if I told you the first 20 years or so were just practice and that he's about to take you on a journey that will result in a 50X, that's, 50 times Thrust, thrust up. 50:08.712 --> 50:11.609 In Jesus' name, hallelujah, thank you. 50:12.260 --> 50:20.232 I feel this in my bones Open doors, witty inventions, divine ideas. 50:20.440 --> 50:21.726 You'll have to pinch yourself. 50:21.820 --> 50:23.005 You'll think you're in a dream. 50:23.540 --> 50:28.770 The Lord will come to you, woo-hoo, and take your whole family up, up, up. 50:28.960 --> 50:33.684 In Jesus' name, hallelujah. 50:36.600 --> 50:38.247 I gotta tell you I have no way of saying it. 50:38.300 --> 50:42.449 It sounds cliche, but the greatest years are ahead. 50:46.388 --> 50:53.128 This has really been a testing phase and I sense the Lord saying I am so well pleased. 50:55.380 --> 50:56.726 Couple of decades of testing. 51:01.961 --> 51:05.783 Hallelujah, hallelujah. 51:06.980 --> 51:09.108 This is the City Light Church podcast. 51:09.560 --> 51:18.166 If you've missed any part of today's message or if you would like to find out more about Pastor Boyan Jansik in City Light Church, visit us at citylightnyccom. 51:19.200 --> 51:21.347 That's citylightnyccom. 51:22.400 --> 51:25.369 Feel free to visit us online or in person anytime. 51:25.880 --> 51:27.345 We would love to connect with you. 51:28.320 --> 51:35.847 We pray that you have been encouraged today, that you have been reminded how much God loves you and that you are surrounded by grace. 51:36.700 --> 51:37.564 Thank you for listening. 51:38.120 --> 51:43.585 Make sure that you subscribe to City Light Church podcast wherever you find your favorite podcasts worldwide.